Naresh Kumar

A highly automated end-to-end digital grant management platform. It reduces the administrative burden on scheme managers, making it easy to design and activate bespoke grants, offering a well-designed, intuitive citizen journey. Automated processes mean less opportunity for human error, greater transparency, and faster turnaround, ensuring more compliant applications. Improved reporting of outcomes helps funders optimize processes and understand how schemes perform, reducing the risk and cost of fraud. Local and central government scheme funders are looking to efficiently disburse grants to the right people while improving citizen experience.

The UK's Department for International Trade (DIT) has signed a three-year, £2.6 million contract with Capita to use its GrantIS digital platform to distribute grants to businesses.

Capita announced that the DIT would be the first client to use the platform to distribute grants to around 7,600 SMEs to find help in new markets overseas.

A portfolio of standard and volume products, all part of KPN EEN and the seven value propositions, for business market customers with multiple users: SMEs, large enterprise-level, and corporate companies.

Small business customers (ZZP/SOHO) are allowed to purchase the above portfolio from the B2B ecosystem, even though they are not yet in the scope of the B2B ecosystem in terms of portfolio and service. These customers will be targeted with a business proposition, KPN Kleinzakelijk, from the mass market ecosystem.

Ortec Finance aims to enable people to manage the complexity of investment decisions. They do this by delivering leading technologies and solutions for investment decision-making to financial institutions worldwide. Their strength lies in an effective combination of advanced models, innovative technology, and in-depth market knowledge. This combination of skills and expertise supports investment professionals in achieving a better risk-return ratio, thus better results.

As a Salesforce architect, I led the design and implementation of an enterprise-grade Salesforce ecosystem serving 15,000+ users across 40+ countries for Booking.com's B2B sales operations. The platform integrated Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, and Marketing Cloud to manage relationships with 50,000+ accommodation partners and process over two million records daily.

I architected a custom Lightning Experience solution with 200+ optimized objects and led the migration from Classic to Lightning, improving page load times by 60% and user adoption by 85%. I designed and deployed a MuleSoft-based integration architecture connecting Salesforce with SAP, Oracle, and internal reservation systems, achieving near real-time data synchronization and eliminating 95% of manual data entry.

Additionally, I established governance frameworks, code review processes, and CI/CD deployment pipelines, reducing production incidents by 70%. Created Einstein Analytics dashboards, empowering regional sales managers with actionable insights for faster decision-making.